A new protein-dependent riboswitch activates ribosomal frameshifting

Betts J, Jeffries C, Passchier T, Kung H, Graham S, Abdelhamid M, Howard J, Craggs T, Graham S, Brierley I, Leake M, Quinn S, Hill C, (2025) DOI

SASDWR5 – Stimulatory element RNA

Stimulatory element RNA
MWexperimental 14 kDa
MWexpected 12 kDa
VPorod 19 nm3
log I(s) 7.53×103 7.53×102 7.53×101 7.53×100
Stimulatory element RNA small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
Stimulatory element RNA Guinier plot ln 7.53×103 Rg: 1.9 nm 0 (1.9 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
Stimulatory element RNA Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
p(r)
Stimulatory element RNA pair distance distribution function Rg: 2.0 nm 0 Dmax: 8 nm

Data validation


Fits and models


log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Stimulatory element RNA SREFLEX model
Stimulatory element RNA OTHER [STATIC IMAGE] model

log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Stimulatory element RNA MONSA model

log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Stimulatory element RNA COOT model

Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of stimulatory element RNA in 20 mM HEPES pH 7.4, 400 mM KCl 2% v/v glycerol, 1 mM DTT were collected on the EMBL P12 beam line at PETRA III (DESY; Hamburg, Germany) using a Pilatus 6M detector at a sample-detector distance of 3 m and at a wavelength of λ = 0.123983 nm (I(s) vs s, where s = 4πsinθ/λ, and 2θ is the scattering angle). In-line size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) SAS was employed. The SEC parameters were as follows: A 50.00 μl sample at 7.1 mg/ml was injected at a 0.35 ml/min flow rate onto a GE Superdex 75 Increase 5/150 column at 20°C. 57 successive 0.250 second frames were collected through the SEC-elution peak. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.

The models displayed in this entry show: Top: A post normal-mode SREFLEX model obtained using an AlphaFold-predicted structure of the RNA as an initial template, and an alignment of several different SREFLEX outputs. Middle: a MONSA ab initio dummy-atom model reconstruction of the RNA particle. Bottom: A pseudoknot conformation based on the X-ray crystal structure of the RNA in complex with Protein 2A (refer to SASBDB entry SASDWS5; https://www.sasbdb.org/data/SASDWS5). The full entry archive contains the unsubtracted SEC-SAXS 1D-data frames in addition to DAMMIN, MONSA and SREFLEX modelling routines.

Stimulatory element RNA
Mol. type   RNA
Organism   synthetic RNA
Olig. state   Monomer
Mon. MW   11.8 kDa
Sequence   FASTA